Prometheus clip sees Idris Elba and his team land on faraway planet

The first official clip from Ridley Scott’s latest sci-fi adventure sees Idris Elba and his team of hardened explorers land the space ship Prometheus on a faraway planet in their mission to find Earth’s origins and save humankind.

The first clip from Ridley’s Scott Prometheus has been released (Picture: 20th Century Fox)

In the one minute video, Elba as Captain Janek helms the Prometheus spaceship with the help of Noomi Rapace, Logan Marshall-Green, Charlize Theron and Michael Fassbender.

Against an impressive outer space back drop, the snippet follows the explorers on their maiden flight before landing in the depths of a seemingly uninhabitable landscape which is said to have once been the home to ancient civilizations.

Idris Elba as Captain Janek lands Prometheus in the first clip from the film (Picture: 20th Century Fox)

The hotly anticipated movie is set in the same world as Scott’s 1979 classic Alien, although it is based on events 35 years earlier.

Nevertheless, everyone involved is reluctant to refer to it as a prequel.

Screenwriter Damon Lindelof, who also wrote Lost, recently explained the reasons behind the decision to reduce the links between the two films.

Idris Elba and his team joke about the murky weather (Picture: 20th Century Fox)

He told Entertainment Weekly: ‘Let’s say I had nothing to do with this movie and I was one of the people on the internet who was really curious about what it was, my feeling would be – and this is just me – to hear that it’s a prequel, makes the movie less interesting to me than if I don’t really have a clear sense of what it’s about.

‘I anticipated that, at a certain point, the fact that we weren’t really openly addressing that question – or being cagey about that question – would lead to a certain degree of frustration, because that’s what I would be feeling as a fan.

The cast and crew have been keen to distance the film from Ridley Scott’s 1979 classic Alien (Picture: 20th Century Fox)

However, the two films do have some obvious parallels.

Lindelof continued: ‘Ridley thought that it would be cool that in the teaser he’d have the word Prometheus reveal itself exactly the way the title Alien revealed itself in the original trailer for Alien.

‘This is him saying, “I’m making this choice for a very specific reason. If you want to continue asking me what this movie’s relationship is with Alien, why in God’s name do you think I would do that?”‘

Stunning scenes pave the way for out of this world CGI (Picture: 20th Century Fox)

Meanwhile, Rapace, who stars as archaeologist Elizabeth Shaw, has put to bed any comparisons to Sigourney Weaver’s Ellen Ripley in Alien.

‘She’s more feminine [than Ripley], she’s a bit more naïve in the beginning,’ Noomi told Digital Spy. ‘She’s a believer, she’s full of faith, she’s a scientist and archaeologist.

Prometheus lands in the short clip’s final scenes (Picture: 20th Century Fox)

‘She goes on this journey in space and she changes into a fighter, warrior and survivor. She’s very much a typical Ridley Scott woman!’